Scouting Report: Louisville

Scott Satterfield, Louisville
Scott Satterfield is in his second season at Louisville. (Jamie Rhodes-ACC Pool)

Over it’s last three games, Louisville lost to Georgia Tech 46-27, lost a defensive slugfest to Notre Dame 12-7, and laid a 48-16 whipping on a Florida State team that had just upset UNC. Which of these squads shows up for Tech?

The games were a little weird in how they worked out. The Cards were up 27-26 early in the fourth quarter against GT until a fumble flipped things around; GT’s final TD was with 1:28 left on the clock after Louisville got stopped on downs near their own end zone. The Cards lost the turnover battle 3-0. Against the Irish, both teams played like they were in mud; to break out, they were going for it on fourth-down and running fake kicks, and they still didn’t crack twenty points combined. And FSU fell apart after a big win over UNC; they were so bad that one of their two TDs was a bit of luck after the QB fumbled the mesh in the red zone, and after they did stuff like giving up a 60-yard TD bomb on 2nd and 24…so maybe that’s not weird for today’s FSU, but it makes evaluating the game tougher.  

One thing’s for sure: this squad has speed to spare on both sides of the ball.

Offense

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